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Face of a bearded male youth painted in color on board. Such painted portraits on wooden boards were attached to Egyptian mummies from Roman Egypt. This portrait done with pigment mixed with wax, is clearly Greek in style, yet was used as a mummy mask in the Ptolemaic period. The mask comes from the Fayum agricultural region where a mixed Egyptian and Greek population lived for about four centuries.

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  • Title: Fayum portrait
  • Location: Rubayat, Fayum District (Fayyum, Faiyum), Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
  • External Link: View this object record in the Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center
  • Medium: Encaustic wax, pigment, board
  • Weight: 34.3 x 19.7 x 17.5cm
  • USNM Catalog Number(s): A230149-0
  • Photo Credit: Kim Nielsen, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History & Smithsonian Institution Archives
  • Historic Period: 50-200 AD, Roman Period, Greco-Egyptian
  • Field: Archaeology
  • Accession Date: 1905-03-18
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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